Chronic low back pain (CLBP) and obesity are interrelated, but the physiological
mechanisms linking the 2 conditions remain to be determined. Functional brain imaging …

Chronic pain is associated with anhedonia and decreased motivation. These behavioral
alterations have been linked to alterations in the limbic brain and could explain the …

Overweight and obesity are major risk factors for a number of chronic diseases, including
diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and cancer. Obesity rates are on the rise worldwide with …

There is overlap between brain regions involved in taste and pain perception, and cortical
injuries may lead to increases as well as decreases in sensitivity to taste. Recently it was …

Objectives Chronic pain and obesity are major public health concerns. Animal and human
models have demonstrated that eating high-sugar nutrient-dense foods confers analgesic …

Pleasure from foods can stimulate “non-homoeostatic” eating, and might therefore also
potentially contribute toward obesity. However, obesity is not reliably associated with …

Two thirds of US adults are either obese or overweight and this rate is rising. Although the
etiology of obesity is not yet fully understood, neuroimaging studies have demonstrated that …

Background Prevailing models of obesity posit that hedonic signals override homeostatic
mechanisms to promote overeating in today's food environment. What researchers mean by …

Background Ingestion of sweet food is driven by central reward circuits and restrained by
endocrine and neurocrine satiety signals. The specific influence of sucrose intake on central …

Body image represents a multidimensional concept including body image evaluation and
perception of body appearance. Disturbances of body image perception are considered to …